Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a beast's snout; long-nosed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a beast's snout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by a
prominent snout. - adjective Shaped like a
snout , especially a pig's.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I trust the decent people will rally and gets the snouty pencil pushing ones out and put them on uninhabited island to earn their keep if they want to live, so that the decent ones can enjoy the benefits of real living ..
The Inside Story of the Dog Who Changed My Life « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Many of them featured the "stoej-gnpf," a plump, earnest, snouty creature whom Gorey depicted gazing intently at the address on the envelope or reclining under enigmatic machines.
Gorey's Flights of Fancy Karen Wilkin 2011
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The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension.
A Bargain-Priced Hatch Dan Neil 2011
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This is a big car, but it's mostly a long, snouty car, and sometimes the front wheels feel like they are in Saxony.
BMW 640i: For the All-Business Person Dan Neil 2011
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Dan Neil / The Wall Street Journal This is a big car, but it's mostly a long, snouty car, and sometimes the front wheels feel like they are in Saxony.
BMW 640i 2011
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He peered down the tunnel and thought he could see dim, snouty shapes approaching.
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We were young, twenty-one, but you were tall and snouty like a dorky giraffe, and I was chimpy with no neck.
My Friend 2010
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It still looks snouty and unbalanced in the front, with a clumsy front-axle-to-dash ratio; and even with 18-inch wheels, the "dead-cat holes" in the wheel wells look like they could really accommodate a dead cat.
A Rote SUV From BMW Dan Neil 2010
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"Penelope" tells the perfectly -- well, imperfectly -- inane tale of a snouty young woman from a snooty family.
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She wasn't eating generic slabs of lumpy meat that had nothing in common with happy moo-cows and snouty piglets; no, she was eating something with eyes, legs, and claws.
The Trip 2004
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